Vice President delivers keynote address to FSM Law Day debate teams POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – Vice President Redley Killion addressed land ownership issues in his keynote address, July 12, before the FSM Law Day debate teams. This year’s FSM Law Day debate centered…

New French ambassador to present credentials POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – The French Ambassador-designate to the Federated States of Micronesia will be presenting his credentials July 18 in Palikir. Jean-Pierre Vidon will present his credentials to President Leo A. Falcam during a credentials ceremony…

Cholera update shows 2287 people treated POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – The figures keep their seesaw pattern, but the number of people treated for suspected cholera as of July 20 stand at 2,287. The Pohnpei State Hospital Suspected Cholera list printed July 21 show…

Micronesian kingfisher study reveals interesting life POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – Divorce, house wrecking, flirtation, and raising the kids – sounds like a television soap opera. Well, it’s is just part of what two scientists have discovered about the Micronesian Kingfisher, locally called the…

Plant and animal quarantine regs sent to governors, legislatures POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – FSM President Leo A. Falcam has transmitted sets of the newly revised FSM plant and animal quarantine regulations and quarantine awareness leaflets to the Congress Speaker Jack Fritz, the four…

FSM ambassador to Fiji called home POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – The Federated States of Micronesia is calling home its ambassador to Fiji for consultation. This comes after the recent coup and the selection of an interim government in that South Pacific island nation….

US INS makes it faster for FSM citizens to work in US POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – The United States Department of Immigration and Naturalization Service has made it easier for Micronesians and other Free Association States citizens to get employment authorization documents, commonly…

FSM Election Director prepares for national Congress, ConCon elections POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – The FSM national election director has returned from a four-state visit where he met with state election commissioners in preparation for the upcoming FSM congressional general election and the constitutional…

FSM Appellate Court issues opinion in the FSM’s most important case POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – The FSM Supreme Court, Appellate Division, on June 30, ruled in favor of the FSM government, thus supporting the trial court opinion that the States are not the…

FSM reacts strongly to GAO testimony POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – The Federated States of Micronesia has issued a statement expressing shock at the testimony by the U.S. General Accounting Office during a recent hearing before a U.S. Congressional subcommittee. The hearing chaired by…